**Description** SAIC’s Space & Intel Business Group, USG Mission and Information Technology Division, is seeking a **Chief** **DevOps Engineer** to maintain and enhance an existing social media data exploitation platform. This position is in **Reston, VA** and requires an **active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.** In this role, you will work within an existing team to develop enhancements to an existing service-based web application. Job responsibilities include, but are not limited to: + Coordinate with multiple entities, including mission partners, to ensure tools meet defined requirements. + Apply DevOps principles and philosophies to continuously deliver high value enhancements to software in a service-based architecture. + Ensure all application security vulnerabilities are addressed as appropriate by severity to maintain security accreditation. + Support data engineering efforts to analyze large data sets to derive data relationships. + Maintain, upgrade, and troubleshoot various codebases deployed in a multi-cloud environment. + Maintain, upgrade, troubleshoot, hardware and networks. • + Design, develop or maintain SQL-based databases. **Qualifications** + **Active TS/SCI with Polygraph.** + Bachelors and 18 years or more experience; Masters and 16 years or more experience; PhD or JD and 13 years or more experience. + Demonstrated experience working with ElasticSearch. + Experience using AWS to include S3, EBS, and EC2. + Experience in platform and application automated deployment. + Knowledge of cloud deployment, DevOps, containerization, web service and API management, and computing optimization. + Experience in cloud database, storage, virtualization, and network configurations. + Ability to implement DevSecOps CI/CD pipelines to support a multi-tenant environment. + Experience incorporating automated software quality checks, security scanning, infrastructure-as-code, and other modern DevSecOps tools and practices. + Experience working within cloud computing environments, Linux and Unix-based operating systems, and using ElasticSearch and Kibana. + Ability to use requirements tracking programs such as JIRA or Confluence. + Experience maintaining, upgrading, troubleshooting, and managing software, hardware and networks. + Experience installing, configuring, testing, and maintaining operating systems, application software, and system management tools. + Ability to monitor system performance and troubleshoot. **Desired Software Engineering Skills:** + Experience in programming, software tools and packages, operating systems, and networking to solve collection needs in multi-cloud environments. + Ability to manage software applications in a multi-cloud environment (AWS, Azure, etc.). + Experience with Python. + Ability to listen and transcribe from mission need to technical requirements. + Ability to assess project requirements and make informed technical recommendations. + Experience developing and documenting scripts on Linux platforms. + Experience designing, developing, and maintaining SQL-based databases, including PostgreSQLand MySQL. + Ability to develop PL/SQL database scripts, including procedures, functions, exception handlers, and triggers. + Experience writing and tuning complex queries against structured and unstructured data sets. + Experience developing, documenting, and maintaining secure and scalable REST APIs. + Experience integrating services using messaging technologies, including service buses, publish and subscribe, and MQ. + Experience working with geo-locational data at both the backend and the application tier. + Ability to develop software in a DevOps environment. + Experience maintaining Jenkins Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) pipelines with automated testing and deployment. + Experience using Git as a source code repository. **Desired Skills:** + Demonstrated experience working with big data processing and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB, ElasticSearch, MapReduce, and HBase. + Demonstrated experience with Apache NiFi. + Experience with the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) processes. + Ability to manage and mitigate IT security vulnerabilities using Plans of Actions and Milestones (POAMs) + Knowledge in applying FISMA security controls. + Ability to document and communicate technical and non-technical mission requirements for all audiences. + Ability to work collaboratively with other technical teams across multiple organizational boundaries. SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline. Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site. REQNUMBER: 2412866 SAIC is a premier technology integrator, solving our nation's most complex modernization and systems engineering challenges across the defense, space, federal civilian, and intelligence markets. Our robust portfolio of offerings includes high-end solutions in systems engineering and integration; enterprise IT, including cloud services; cyber; software; advanced analytics and simulation; and training. We are a team of 23,000 strong driven by mission, united purpose, and inspired by opportunity. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, SAIC has annual revenues of approximately $6.5 billion. For more information, visit saic.com. For information on the benefits SAIC offers, see Working at SAIC. EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability